Assurance And Blessings: A Song History

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"Assurance And Blessings" is a duet for Native American flute and mountain dulcimer in DulciFlute 3, a Fingers Of Steel songbook by John Keane and Karen Keane that calls for a dulcimer tuned DAD and a flute in B minor; the download carries the book's fourteen pieces with recordings of each.[1] The Keanes, of Shreveport, Louisiana, hold degrees in music education and are active composers; John Keane's DulcimerDownloads page credits them with several books and CDs of original music for these two instruments.[2] The book's listing does not say who wrote this particular tune, and the sources consulted here give no composer credit, recording history or account of its title, nor do they connect it with the hymn "Blessed Assurance."[1][2]

Red-painted wooden flute bound with leather strips, with a carved block near one end

Pib-be-gwun or Siyontanka, Chippewa or Ojibwa flute, wood and skin, 19th century. Shown for the kind of flute the book pairs with the dulcimer; it has no connection to the tune.

Our book that contains the song "Assurance And Blessings"

Sources

  1. Fingers Of Steel: "John Keane And Karen Keane, DulciFlute 3".
  2. DulcimerDownloads: "John Keane".
  3. Image: Pib-be-gwun or Siyontanka, Chippewa or Ojibwa flute, wood and skin, 19th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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